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• If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that…
• A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s…
• Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
• Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it…
• Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more…
• When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a…
• Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how…
• Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to…
• An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to…
• I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
• For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
• The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity…

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